Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #7555: Percentage word problems 1 - 848/2.39
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2011-12-02 13:58:38+00:00
State: open
Labels: firefox, hard

I used long division method I am getting 355.041 but using calculator I get the answer as mentioned , Is my technique wrong or am i doing a silly mistake that i fail to recognize

[percentage_word_problems_1.html?seed=154&problem=yearly-percentages](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/percentage_word_problems_1.html?seed=154&problem=yearly-percentages&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/percentage_word_problems_1.html?seed=154&problem=yearly-percentages&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22355.04%5C%22%22%2C359%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C4%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C5%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C6%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C6%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C7%5D%5D)

["355.04","355.04","355.04","355.04","355.04"]

Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0

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